Padre
Member
You know, I'm starting to realise a lot of you guys are 'collectors', while I am not. I buy, model, paint, play, make campaign worlds for and stories about figures. I convert and scratchbuild and kitbash. But I have no recollections of what range figures are from, or what sculptor was involved, or whether I have the complete set. Most of my figures are not Citadel, many are converted, and a good portion were bought in bargain buckets at conventions or given by friends or whatever and so I don't know their origins at all.
All your posts re: which figures you are trying to get to complete this set or that range finally made this obvious to me. Of course, I thought, Oldhammerers - still Warhammering after all these years - are very likely to be collectors. And don't get me wrong, I understand where you are coming from and can imagine maybe one day I will suddenly feel I want to possess a certain range. But up 'til now my urge to acquire figures has been about game projects, campaign settings, themed armies, etc. Not collecting nice figures, but finding figures to serve certain purposes in my little worlds. My paint desk right now is filled with 'Briganti' for my new Tilean story-campaign project, as well as private militia guards, priests of Morr and Shallyan Sisters (actually Renaissance figures from Wargames Foundry or Perry).
So, this thread is about finding out the truth. Do you see yourselves as primarily collectors, like hoarding philatelists, or (as I suspect) are there all sorts of other motives and driving forces built in? Are you trying to recapture your youth, or cling on to it? Are you more keen on the painting or the playing? I like both, but if it were not for the campaigns and story projects I have been involved with over the last 10 years I do not think I would do either now.
Just interested, that's all.
All your posts re: which figures you are trying to get to complete this set or that range finally made this obvious to me. Of course, I thought, Oldhammerers - still Warhammering after all these years - are very likely to be collectors. And don't get me wrong, I understand where you are coming from and can imagine maybe one day I will suddenly feel I want to possess a certain range. But up 'til now my urge to acquire figures has been about game projects, campaign settings, themed armies, etc. Not collecting nice figures, but finding figures to serve certain purposes in my little worlds. My paint desk right now is filled with 'Briganti' for my new Tilean story-campaign project, as well as private militia guards, priests of Morr and Shallyan Sisters (actually Renaissance figures from Wargames Foundry or Perry).
So, this thread is about finding out the truth. Do you see yourselves as primarily collectors, like hoarding philatelists, or (as I suspect) are there all sorts of other motives and driving forces built in? Are you trying to recapture your youth, or cling on to it? Are you more keen on the painting or the playing? I like both, but if it were not for the campaigns and story projects I have been involved with over the last 10 years I do not think I would do either now.
Just interested, that's all.